Exporting photos at original size

How do I export photos and keep their original size. I do not have the Image Sizing checked but it seems to be resizing my photos anyway. It seems to have started this evening. I exported files fine at file sizes of ex: 5387 kb the original size. Not they are exporting at ex: 478 kb. Can't figure out what the problem is. I contacted Adobe and Tech Support is not in until Monday. Ugh

There are a number of different variables for saving a JPG, or a TIFF, which alter both the file size and (in the case of JPG) the specific picture quality which will survive the save.
Lightroom's JPG quality setting does not correspond exactly with what the JPG choices available (e.g.) inside the camera, were doing. The chances of exporting an identical filesize are remote, for JPG. And smaller is not necessarily worse in practice, since one has to consider the efficiency as well as the degree of information loss, of the differently packaged picture.
Also, editing changes made in Lightroom can affect the saved file size that you get when you Export.
If the image has been cropped smaller within LR - whether to a changed aspect ratio, for composition / subject reasons, as a byproduct of perspective adjustment etc, merely straighteniong a horizon, or some combination of those - then there is less picture extent being saved - quite aside from the saving format.
Next, the fine detail present in the image affects the efficiency of compression. A "smooth" image area compresses a lot at a given quality setting (small file), while a "busy" image area compresses less at the same quality setting (big file). So changing contrast, sharpening, blurring with negative Clarity, adding a film-grain effect, vignetting, all kinds of changes to the seen picture may make a difference, because you are in effect... saving different picture content.
RP

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hi!
with Aperture 3 when exporting versions in original size, I obtain 400xYYY pixels (images constrained to 400x400) showing impossibility to respect the original size.
attempting to solve the problem I have exported selecting limited wider sizes (like <4000x4000) to allow the program to keep the higher resolution. It doesn't work because then all images are forced to be exported in 4000x4000.
anybody has the solution?
thank you. david

Welcome to the forum.
Go to Aperture>Presets>Image Export, select the export preset you are using and make sure that it's on 'original size' and not on 'fit within'.
Ian

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I shoot RAW (Canon 7D) and import my RAW files in LR, make my edits, export as JPG and also, just incase I want to go back and tweak my edits I export the file as "orginal" which if I understand it correctly, LR makes a copy of my .cr2 file. I compared the original CR2 file to the copy LR makes and see a slight color difference but that's all.
Is it safe to delete the original CR2 files from my camer and keep the "original" copy the LR makes when I export?

This is my original workflow:
Export CR2 files from Camera via memory card reader
Create folder structure with date and then subfolder named RAW that holds the CR2 files
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Export photos as DNG (to keep edits)
Create a subfolder named DNG to keep as well as the original downloaded CR2 files from the camera
This process is fine with me and works, however, keeping the DNG and the CR2 files really takes up a lot of space; I don't keep my LR catalog for very long as I don't find it useful for viewing, sorting photos, I much prefer ZoomBrowser for that or Windows Photo Viewer
The workflow I originally inquired on in my first post:
Export CR2 files from Camera via memory card reader
Create folder structure with date and then subfolder named RAW that holds the CR2 files
Open Geosetter and keyword photos as well as geotag (I know LR4 does this, however, geosetter allows me to keyword much easier as well as geotag)
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My question was regarding step 7 in this new workflow, my concern is that the LR copy of the .cr2 file is actually EXACTLY the same as the original .CR2 file from my camera.
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DPI - Dots Per Inch - is meaningless for digital photos until you print them. Then to have a 300 dpi photo you need 300 dots (pixels) per inch of printed photo - so a photo to be printed at 1" x 1" needs to be 300 pixels x 300 pixels - one to be printed at 4" x 6" needs to be 1200 pixels x 1800 pixels -- once to be printed at 20" x 30" needs to be 6000 pixels x 9000 pixels.
See The Myth of DPI for additional information.
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I am new to Lightroom. When I export a group of photos some are around 3000x4000 and others are around 6000x8000.
These larger sizes will not upload to my Picasa Web Albums.
Why are they different sizes? Some are only taken on my iphone and are the larger size and others are on my SLR and are the small size.
Thanks

If you want to resize exported images you have to select any file format other than <Original> in the Import Dialog / File Setting / Image Format.
For web-use you would select JPG. Color space for web use is sRGB.
Selecting another format than <Original> will activate the <Image Sizing> and <Output Sharpening> sections of the Export Dialog.
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I took some pictures of a friends daughter for her senior pictures and the school has very specific size requirements for photos submitted. They state they have to be 2.5" high and 2.0" Wide and 300 resolution.
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Without seeing the photo, there's no way for us to tell. It may be you need to take another head shot with more "space" around it so the crop will work. Wedding photographers do this all the time, their initial photo has lots of unneeded "space" around the subject so that they can crop at various different aspect ratios.

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I indicated this with my previous post. Having less than 500 photos in an album does not solve the problem, but if you didn't have an iPhone, would you have over 500 photos in an iPhoto album (it is a photo album afterall) or anywhere close to it?
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What is the iPhone designed for anyway?
I'll provide this with how the iPhone was described by Steve Jobs when first introduced. The iPhone is a phone, an iPod, and an internet device. Most iPods support disk mode. The iPhone does not. The name is i - Phone - being a phone first and foremost that also includes an iPod and internet access, not i - Portable Storage Device.

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I'm just starting to use iPhoto 08. I tried to export a photo and instead of being able to make the photo the exact size that I want ( a feature that the previous version of iPhoto had), I was given only the following choices: Low, Medium, High, Maximum. Being limited to those four choices is not an improvement! Am I missing something? Is it still possible to make an exported photo the exact size desired by using a different command??
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Diana

Diana
In the File -> Export dilogue:
Kind: Jpeg (or anything except Original or Current)
Then the Size drop down becomes available. Choose between Small, Medium, Large, Full Size or CUSTOM allows you most control.
The Low -> High parameter refers to the level of compression on the file.
Regards
TD

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ssprengel wrote:
And if you go to Develop, and make your filmstrip thumbnails a little taller to make sure all the badges are shown, does a missing indicator show up, there? Can you Export from Develop?
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I adjusted the height of the thumbnails. Still no exclamation points or question marks as noted here.
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I have been looking around to try and find a way to get photos that have been pulled from the iPhone then resynced up to the iPhone to retain their original size, but it appears that there's no workaround for this. That is a very big problem for me. I'm an iPhone photographer and I've taken nearly 4000 photos on my phone. Every week or two I'll resync up my phone to the PC, dump the images to the PC then re-sync them up to the phone organized into folders by date. So far so good.
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I can understand resizing the images to a size that's more practical for display on the iPhone since under normal circumstances there's no reason to have a 1600x1200 image on a phone that can only display 480x320. But this is really a serious issue for me as I don't have them on there simply for viewing, but I have them there for editing and manipulating. With the advent of the App Store, and all the Photography apps that are on the market, the iPhone is actually a very powerful tool for artistic expression and to have it forceably limited to a low-resolution import really is absurd.
This may not be an issue for the majority of iPhone users, but for me it is critical. The resizing of photographs needs to be an OPTION, not a REQUIREMENT so that people like me can utilize the iPhone to its maximum potential. This limitation takes it, in my view, from being a serious tool, to a casual toy.
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Marc Bublitz wrote:
I thought that originally too, but that's all changed with the pool of apps that are out there now. So now what I'm trying to do is to prove that technology is progressing to the point where a tiny, handheld phone can produce images that are nearly as good as photos taken with much more expensive and bulky equipment. I've got my share of expensive bulky camera equipment, but I'm finding that I'm having much more enjoyment out of using my iPhone from initial capture, to editing, to publishing, and achieving results that are nearly as good.
I do think you're working under a bit of a handicap. For example, lens quality. Here's an iPhone photo example of some wild turkeys in the neighborhood masked by flare that would be much better controlled on an SLR lens (click to enlarge - the flare is obvious, the turkeys are not):
At the same time, working under a handicap can definitely spur creativity, similar to the oft-cited example of swapping out your zoom lens for a prime to force yourself to pay attention to composition.
It's an interesting concept - I wish you luck!

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